FX FX Impact M3 - fired with bolt open

[450BM]

My buddy just purchased an Impact M3 from this site and was shooting it for the second time so it’s still brand new to him. He accidentally fired it with the bolt open and now it’s leaking at the first regulator gauge. He emptied the magazine (25 or so shots) and it functioned fine. It‘s still leaking air.

Where does he start? He’s a powder burner gun builder but new to PCP…

Any help would be appreciated.

BB

 

[Pysiths]

Seeing that he's new to the impact platform. I recommend he send it out for repair. Contact FX support.

 

[ctshooter]

Before sending anything out I would recommend to try and give the gauge a little snugging up to see if it stops the leak. Could've been the roughness of firing with the bolt open jostled it a bit.

 

[Ta-Ta Toothie]

My buddy just purchased an Impact M3 from this site and was shooting it for the second time so it’s still brand new to him. He accidentally fired it with the bolt open and now it’s leaking at the first regulator gauge. He emptied the magazine (25 or so shots) and it functioned fine. It‘s still leaking air.

Where does he start? He’s a powder burner gun builder but new to PCP…

Any help would be appreciated.

BB

I would be surprised if the breech o-ring is in place.

 

[Pysiths]

He's going to have to disassemble the impact and might voild is warranty.
Is it leaking from the first regulator gauge? Explain more on where it is leaking.
Blown an o-ring just need to find switch one...lol

 

[450BM]

He's going to have to disassemble the impact and might voild is warranty.
Is it leaking from the first regulator gauge? Explain more on where it is leaking.
Blown an o-ring just need to find switch one...lol

He bought it used, does the warranty transfer to the new owner?

Taking things apart isn’t a problem to him, just looking for some experience on where to start.

It felt like it was coming out of the first reg gauge. We were outside, had been shooting other guns for awhile and were cold so it wasn’t a good situation to diagnose it. When we got back to warmth, he took the bottle off and then the gauge but didn’t have a leak then without the bottle. We need to put the bottle and gauge back on, put some more air in it and then see where the air is coming from with the plastic cover off the gauge.

 

[mubhaur]

Technically I don't find any reason of leaking from 1st regulator if the gun is shot while cocking lever was open.

Apparently the worst thing that logically could happen is damage to the cocking mechanism.

It may be a coincident that leaking started when this happened.

Bhaur

 

[7Green]

Technically I don't find any reason of leaking from 1st regulator if the gun is shot while cocking lever was open.

Apparently the worst thing that logically could happen is damage to the cocking mechanism.

It may be a coincident that leaking started when this happened.

Bhaur

Agree

 

[bigHUN]

Releasing a shot with a lever open happened to many of us. I even made one dampener back in that time

 

[Vetmx]

What’s funny is we all have done it and we all love/demand forward cocking. But in the 6-7 years that I’ve owned my rear cocking guns, I never pulled the trigger on one of them with the lever open.

 

[450BM]

The gun is fixed! Put the gauge and bottle back on and pumped it up with zero leak. It had to be a loose gauge that must have been jarred just enough to make it leak. Huge relief for him!

Thanks for the replies, much appreciated to hear from guys with more experience!